ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,336, issued on June 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for security management in distributed systems" was invented by Yehiel Zohar (Sderot, Israel), Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel) and Lee Serfaty (Be'er Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for securing distributed systems are disclosed. The distributed systems may include data processing systems subject to compromise by malicious entities. If compromised, the data processing systems may impair the services provided by the distributed system. To secure the distributed systems, the data processing systems may i...